Cora Weiss

“We can not pluck rape out of war and let the war go on. We must not make war safe for women. It is time to abolish war,” – Cora Weiss on the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference on ending sexual violence in conflict Congratulations to the Nobel Women for convening a conference on violence, women […]

Weiss is a supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, a leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States. In the 1970s Weiss was the director of the Riverside Church (New York, NY) Disarmament Program. Weiss was also active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and The Hague Appeal for Peace.